RARER BRITISH BIRDS. 
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SWIMMING BIRDS. 
Palmipides. Cuvier. Natatores. Vigors. 
Thinking it better in the arrangement of the birds of one 
country only, to follow some well-known arrangement, rather 
than to invent a new one, as in the present day appears to 
be rather the fashion, and which must necessarily add to the 
number and confusion of synonyms, we have not speculated 
upon any general arrangement, and both have and intend to 
follow that of the Baron Cuvier ; occasionally introducing, 
however, the new generic and sub generic names, where they 
appear to us to have been applied judiciously. But, although 
as to general arrangement we follow that to which the immortal 
name of the naturalist above mentioned is attached, we shall 
occasionally alter the arrangement of particular genera, to which 
we think even the strongest advocates for the classification of 
the “ Regne Animal” cannot object; for, it must be recollected, 
that work was only intended as a sketch of an arrangement, 
to be filled up, in the minutiae, by those who made particular 
families their study. 
The genera of the Palmipides, in which we propose to make 
some slight alterations, are the following : — Procellaria, Linn . 
in which we shall place the sub genera, Falmarus, Leach; and 
Thalassidroma, Leach , after Puffinus, Ray ; regarding Puffinus 
as most nearly related to the Divers of the foregoing family, 
and Thalassidroma to the Gulls of the following genus. Larus, 
from which we shall separate Lestris, Illiger, placing it as a 
genus before Larus, (by Cuvier it is placed as a sub g§nus under 
Larus.) We shall also propose some sub divisions among the 
true Gulls. In the family Lamellirostres, Cuvier , we shall place 
the genus Mergus first, as more nearly related to the Cormorants 
